mattering

And with so much more sense of meaning, of consequentiality, instead of nothing mattering.

“Yet the Golden Globes sided with Allen, in effect accusing Dylan either of lying or of not mattering,” he writes.

When 10:59 becomes 11 p.m., and the programming changes to sitcom reruns, the events of the previous hour stop mattering.

They seem very good pipes; and as there's six of them, you and I can break one a-piece if we like, Terry, without its mattering.

If he was a mere bully he sneaked off, mattering that he should find a time.

As for its not mattering—but you don't know who is downstairs.

You will notice that their port is in the east, mattering not what wind may be blowing where you are.

"It is beautiful country, Deane," she said, as if that were the thing mattering just then.